injure the public interest to benefit one 's private interest

injure the public interest to benefit one 's private interest

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is s ǔ ng ō NGF é is ī, which means to damage the public interests and make profits. From Xinhua monthly.

The origin of Idioms

Xinhua monthly, 1979, issue 1: "among the masses, some people make trouble at the expense of the public and private interests."

Idiom usage

It refers to selfishness. We can't make a profit at the expense of the public. Lu Tianming, Secretary of the provincial Party committee, said: "we must not allow people who are at the expense of the public and self-interest, or who are at the expense of the public and self-interest, to take advantage of the economy and politics."